Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Officials most badly wounded were General Shirakawa, who later died, Ambassador Shigemitsu who had to have his leg amputated in the succeeding weeks, the last time by the Emperor's personal surgeon sent from Tokyo, and Admiral Nomura, whose eye was peppered with steel splinters, later had to have it removed. Others on the platform came away with painful injuries and cuts, but none was permanently disabled...
...critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
Dirba. Two days later the Dies Committee heard a witness as outspoken and blunt as Witness Krivitsky was retiring. This was Maurice Malkin, 40-year-old naturalized Russian fur worker, charter member of the U. S. Communist Party, long a well-known figure in the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur Workers Union in Manhattan. Tossed into jail for two years after the incredible New York fur workers' strike of 1926,* Comrade Malkin nursed a grievance. But he remained a member until 1936, collected information, gossip, made statements that led Chairman Dies to observe: "It would be hard for the Chair...
...Coleman held down a tackle slot on one of Father Sill's greatest teams, and earned all-state ranking, which he describes as "pure bunk." Last year Coleman was a comparatively unknown center until the middle of October, when he was shifted to guard. A week and a half later, with Dave Glueck on the injured list, Coleman started his first Varsity game against Cornell...
...Virginia game a few weeks later that Coleman was accused of clipping by a hot-headed Southerner who called him a "damn Yankee." When Coleman angrily retorted that he halled from Baltimore, the Virginian apologized...